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_bramses

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About _bramses

Website: https://www.bramadams.dev/

bram @ bramadams . dev

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    Half right, but no. It IS intellectually lazy precisely because as you pointed out, snake oil salesmen exist in the space. Because of them, well meaning people who can inform peopl…

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    Comment #49148956

    The reason I love the Personal Library Science space is directly due to its emergence of information features in a personal library against the idiosyncratic processes of resonance…

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    Comment #49007814

    The punchy sentence delivery is so annoying and repetitive. The "X is not Y, its Z" form they all take is headache inducing.

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    Comment #48896889

    Location: New York, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS, Claude, OpenAI, Python, Postgres, React, Node Résumé/CV: https://www.bramadams.dev/share/ Email: bram@b…

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    Comment #48887301

    Reading is a System! https://reading-is-a-system.vercel.app/ I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more i…

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    Comment #48536090

    I’ve been doing 1:1 therapy style sessions to make adults better readers!

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    Comment #48500124

    Thanks for the feedback! I don’t agree with your assessment, since the slideshow is about books, not learning in general, but I’ll take those thoughts into consideration. I agree w…

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    Show HN: A Question and Annotation Driven Parallel Reading App

    I run a book club where the club members read 60 books a year ( https://www.sixtybooksayear.com/ ). When reading at a pace of ~5 books/month, there are skills you develop to increa…

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    Comment #46941711

    Im working on a number of projects at once that are all under the umbrellas of: personal library science, booktech, and qualitative improvements to personal life [1]. Notable menti…

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    Comment #46827302

    I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type "standup". Other than tha…

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    Comment #46650243

    https://www.bramadams.dev/ my pride and joy with many easter eggs, including: - random post surfacing - animated book progress html [1] - creative code [2] - code poetry [3] and mu…

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    Comment #46270242

    I’m kicking off my 2026 book club! It’s probably a bit different from book clubs you’re familiar with. Each of us is reading sixty books over 2026, five a month, where every book i…

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    Comment #45875050

    Pretty easily doable by reading multiple books at the same time! Averages out to ~50 pages a day. The trick is to always keep the book queue filled, so long books that take a while…

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    I’m starting a book club! - Sixty books a year (five books a month) - Self Chosen Books (no forced reading) - Two recorded Salon style meetings monthly - Bespoke software for the g…

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    Comment #45203591

    A lot of good ideas in this comment section. I’ll say this: between store, search, synthesize and share, store and synthesize are consistently the most difficult to nail down. A so…

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    Curious as to why you think so? The goal was to discuss my incorrect assumption of the mobile form factor for my software, but how did it read to you?

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